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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.
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With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.
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China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.
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God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
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The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.
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Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
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After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.
